i just go this car and started to noticed a lot of white smoke coming front the exhasut at high rpms, and stinks.
1. does this mean i have a bad head gasket?
2. should i not drive the car until i get it fixed?

B18C block rebuilt
CTR pistons
GSR rods
GSR crank
ARP rod studs
Rage/Hytech header
Skunk2 IM
apexi ws 2 exhaust

and i have a check engine light for 02 sensor.

thansk in advance guys!

 

wat does this stink smell like?

 

ehhh no idea.... never smelt anything like this before... actually, i dont even know how coleant smells like... is there anyway to test if my head gasket is ok? i heard something like when the engine is cold, open the coleant cap and start the car, and observe something... cant remmeber

 

I believe if it was your head gasket it would be pushing black smoke outta your exhaust...Had a friend with the same problem and it was leaving black soot all over the back of his bumper. So dont think it would be head gasket

 

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duh get ur **** straight

white smoke = coolent in combustion chamber

blue/black smoke = oil burning

black = runing rich

mostlikely i say its ur headgasket drain ur oil if it looks milky then u deff have a problem. dont drive the car untill u figure out whats wrong with it

 

Your sucking coolant into combustion chamber, pull the head and have it magna-flux to check for imperfections/cracks and slap in a new head gasket.

 

Do you have any exhaust leaks? That may be the cause of the smell inside the car. (I'm assuming you're inside the car since you can smell the smoke while you're in high RPMs)

Also, what time of day are you looking at the smoke? At night under streetlights all smoke looks white.

Ive seen this in just about all vtec engines especialy in engines over 100,000 miles most of the time its just a little oil getting past the rings at high rpm. Perhaps the person who rebuilt your engine may used piston rings that are just a thousandth of an inch too small? My old prelude had like 180,xxx miles on it and it didnt even have a 10% loss in compression. Just keep an eye on your oil level, make sure you have no oil leaks, and make sure your not losing more than a quart between oil changes.

ALSO: I typed in "high rpm smoke" in the search and found tons of stuff. Don't listen to these clowns telling you to rip the headgasket off first thing straight up. That's no way to troubleshoot and you'll just cause yourself more work in the end.

Here is the most informative:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1240240 (bad PCV valve, valve seals)

 

Don't know about the "clowns"....... white smoke is what it is!!

 

you're right, but as i also mentioned; ALL smoke looks white at night regardless of what "type" it is.

He needs to verify without the shadow of a doubt that it is indeed white smoke before he starts ripping the head off the block. In my experience, white smoke doesn't "stink" nearly as bad as oil smoke. If he's smelling it somehow while driving, then my money says that it's oil smoke.

And if it is indeed white smoke, there are other steps to be taken before replacing the headgasket. If the engine has a fresh rebuild on it, I'm sure they didn't reuse the old headgasket, so why just replace it when there is probably something else that's causing it? Perhaps the headstuds aren't torqued properly? who knows...

edit*He also mentions that he just got the car and it has one of those Rage/Hytech headers; which is a two piece type. If the person who had the car before him drove the car "slammed" then most likely he's got a small exhaust leak coming from the central joint where the two pieces mate together due to it scraping on the ground. Which would explain how he is smelling it inside the cabin.



Modified by Db1_77 at 3:44 PM 6/27/2008

 

thanks for the help db1_77. found oil in my cooleant.

 

Sorry to hear, I prefer to use factory Honda head gasket (felpro's don't seem to last). And have the head checked!!

 

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That's funny you say that cause my local honda dealer sells felpro hg's and uses them.

 

Yes, have the head checked since (I'm assuming) it's going to be taken off.

But here again, oil in the coolant is a symptom of headstuds that have not been torqued down properly. Especially if they're aftermarket studs such as Golden Eagle or ARP. Those can be tricky for beginners since they require two different torque specs in two different places (i.e. the stud itself and then nut).

It's also a symptom of a warped head, which is easily fixed. Has the car ever overheated at all?

 

BLACK S2K why dont you just answer the question that you obviously answered wrong instead of criticizing people about what they say douche bag.